Food now is in a state of crisis.
25% of children in London face hunger during the school holidays.
A total of 3.2 million adults in the UK reported not eating for a whole day because they couldn’t afford or access food.
70% of our wildlife has been obliterated in the last 50 years, 64% of our in insects in the last 20.
Crops contain 40% fewer nutrients than they did 100 years ago.
And 99% of London’s food comes from outside the city, while almost ⅓ of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, ⅕ being from transporting it alone.
There is a serious community response.
We have a rich movement
In our borough alone we have over 35 community food-growing projects
Despite this our local authority is ranked 8th in London for community food growing because of council inaction.
There is an enormous appetite to grow food (over 1000 people on council waiting lists) but a lack of support for people to do so.